“One of the things I point out to people is how unsurprising it is that we’re in this environment, that the token subsidy era has ended,” says Rudy DeFelice, global […]
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My New Paper: Beyond Hallucinations
Beyond Hallucination: Semantic Laundering, Semantic Stewardship, and Prompting Aikido in Human-AI CollaborationAbstract:The primary conversation surrounding generative artificial intelligence centers on factual fabrication: hallucination. While hallucination matters, it represents a crude and easily detected failure mode. This paper identifies a second, quieter epistemic risk: semantic laundering. Large language models produce exceptionally fluent, coherent, and orderly prose that silently smooths…
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From the Orange Rag: Clifford Chance reimagines knowledge management for the AI era
Clifford Chance in July announced the launch of a new knowledge management platform, developed in partnership with Epiq Advisory for Law Firms and Microsoft. Legal IT Insider spoke with Clifford Chance’s global head […]
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DOJ Doubles Down on Criminal Enforcement With Antitrust Convictions and Medicaid Fraud RICO Charges
Two recent federal criminal actions show the Justice Department continuing to press aggressively in both competition and health care enforcement. In Oklahoma City, a federal jury convicted Sioux Erosion Control Inc., along with one executive and one employee, for participating in a roughly $100 million bid-rigging and price-fixing conspiracy tied to public transportation contracts. In a separate matter, prosecutors unsealed…
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D.C. Circuit Freezes Trump White House Ballroom Plan in Separation-of-Powers Fight
A federal appeals court has blocked above-ground construction of President Donald Trump’s proposed $400 million White House ballroom, preserving a preliminary injunction that prevents the project from moving forward while the administration seeks further review. The decision puts a high-profile spotlight on a basic constitutional question: whether the executive branch can unilaterally authorize a major structural change to the White…
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Harvey Introduces Tenet, Its First Post-Trained AI Model for Legal
Harvey’s research showed Tenet performing competitively against frontier AI models from developers including Anthropic, OpenAI and Google across a range of legal agent and knowledge benchmarks.
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Avvoka Launches Template Tool Curate, Analyzing Deal Documents at Scale
Curate, which is in beta, aims to help law firms and legal teams move document automation projects forward by identifying specific language across uploaded transactional documents and turning it into customizable templates.
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‘Digital Twin' Startup Twin A1 Raises $20M in Seed Funding, With Investment From Orrick
The new startup, which creates digital twins of law firm professionals to help better access and share attorneys’ knowledge and judgment, counts a number of Am Law 50 firms as clients.
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Paralegals Aren’t the “Secret Weapon” of Litigation Teams — They’re the Foundation
By Tom O'COnnor
Last week, I announced that I’ll be speaking on an ACEDS webinar titled “Why Paralegals Are the Secret Weapon for Legal Teams in an AI Era” on August 21, 2026. The response was immediate — and revealing.
Some celebrated the framing.
Janice Holman, Head of Global Academic Partnerships at Relativity called paralegals “the glue, soul and spirit that keep firms …
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Clio Grows Clio Grow with Launch of Grow AI, Providing 24/7 Intake Agents
By Bob Ambrogi
Law practice company Clio said today that it is bringing AI to Clio Grow, its client intake and relationship management product.Clio describes the new Grow AI as a set of features within Grow “that work around the clock to turn inquiries into clients.”The product targets a problem documented by Clio’s Legal Trends Report. Even though 79% of prospective clients expect…
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Second Circuit Reopens Investor Claims in Signature Bank Collapse
The Second Circuit has revived investor claims arising from the 2023 collapse of Signature Bank, handing shareholders an important win in a closely watched dispute over who gets to control fraud-based claims after a bank fails.
At the center of the appeal was the FDIC’s argument that, once it became receiver for Signature Bank, it alone had the authority to…
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Digital twin startup Twin1 raises $20m as Linklaters, Orrick and Dechert sign up
Twin1 AI, a platform that “gives every professional an AI-powered digital twin” and is already working with a number of large law firms has come out of stealth with a […]
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Thomson Reuters and iManage deepen AI partnership with MCP-enabled knowledge integration
iManage and Thomson Reuters today (20 August) announced a deeper strategic partnership including model context protocol support that enables Thomson Reuters’ AI tools to access provisioned iManage content while preserving […]
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A Texas Court Shields Generative AI Review Prompts as Work Product, but Leaves No Written Opinion Behind
For lawyers watching how courts will treat attorney-crafted generative AI instructions, the outcome is instructive. But the way it was delivered says just as much about where this area of law actually stands.
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Kinstellar bets on best-of-breed as it accelerates firmwide transformation
If you’re in the camp that likes to read about wholesale transformation that avoids a ‘shiny things’ strategy, read on. Independent international law firm Kinstellar, driven by a couple of […]
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